[bug-inetutils] Copyright years

[Alfred M. Szmidt]

Does anyone know the current method of when to add copyright years and
when to not add them?  I found (maintain)Copyright Notices to be
utterly confusing.  And on top of that, Emacs does it yet another way:

| "Our lawyer says it is ok if we add, to each file that has been in
| Emacs since Emacs 21 came out in 2001, all the subsequent years[1].
| We don't need to check whether *that file* was changed in those
| years.  It's sufficient that *Emacs* was changed in those years (and
| it was!).

| For those files that have been added since then, we should add the
| year it was added to Emacs, and all subsequent years."

|  --RMS, 2005-07-13

| [1] Note that this includes 2001 - see
| <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-pretest-bug/2006-12/msg00119.html>

Basically, if file FOO was created in 1994, should it have all the
years from 1994 to 2007, or what?  Or should it be just the years we
make a real version of inetutils?  The following can be read in so
many ways:

|    The list of year numbers should include each year in which you
| finished preparing a version which was actually released, and which
| was an ancestor of the current version.

Commiting a change to a public repository to me atleast is `preparing
a version which was actually released', in that case we should have
years spanning from the time the file was created (not commited, since
it might have been pulled from somewhere else), to this year.  If it
means when a release of inetutils was made, then it should be 1996,
1997, 1998, 2002, and 2006... Unless you of course count alpha
versions!